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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Well, leaving it on a floppy in your house would be the ultimate control, but I was thinking of the changes that a publisher would insist on before it ever got near a reader. They could make any changes they wanted to your text, you would have no control over cover artwork or blurb, no control over pricing, or how it was marketed.
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You could always simply refuse to publish it their way, and cancel the contract. Keeping it to yourself is always the ultimate control. Once it's released, control is gone; a consumer can take your text, do all those things you didn't want a publisher to do, and resell it their way.
So you actually have LESS control now than you did before the web.